Ida B. Wells-Barnett
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Women’s Issues, Literature, Publishing, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: African Americans, Blacks, Race, Ethnicity, Racism, Civil Rights, Minority Rights, Minorities, Native Americans, American Indians, Segregation, Desegregation, Apartheid, Protests, Marches, Demonstrations, Rallies, Human Rights
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, Women’s History, African American History, American History 1878-1900, American Indian History
Article abstract: An organizer of the antilynching movement, Ida B. Wells was an indefatigable crusader for equal rights for African Americans in the violent decades around the turn of the century, working on issues of education, social services, woman suffrage, and racial violence.
Early Life
Ida Bell Wells was the eldest of eight children born in slavery to slave parents who were both of mixed racial parentage. (Her paternal grandfather was her grandmother’s white owner, and her mother’s father was an American Indian.) Both had learned trades...
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